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Canada: Edmonton jihad attacker was on police watch list

Oct 1, 2017 5:30 pm By Robert Spencer

Here yet again we see that being on a police watch list doesn’t mean that the police are actually watching you.

In response to this jihad attack, numerous Canadian authorities are quoted in this article mouthing meaningless platitudes. A Muslim leader said: “To the Edmonton community at large, I would like to tell them that we stand together and unite against hate. And let’s solve this problem collectively, rather than pointing fingers at each other.”

Translation: don’t start investigating the Muslim community. Don’t start acting as if jihad terror had anything to do with Islam. An Anglican could just as easily have done this.

And people buy this nonsense.

“Edmonton terror attack suspect was known to police, public safety minister says,” CBC News, October 1, 2017:

The man arrested in a suspected terrorist attack in Edmonton that saw a police officer stabbed and several pedestrians run down with a cube van on Saturday night was known to law enforcement, says Canada’s public safety minister.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said in a news conference on Sunday in Regina that the suspect, who is in police custody, was on a “police watch list.”

Goodale said the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team was working closely with Edmonton police on the investigation.

“The individual had apparently some appearance on a police watch list, but that is a detail of the investigation that the authorities will pursue in the appropriate way,” Goodale said. “There are no conclusions that can be drawn at the current time.”

Abdulahi Hasan Sharif is the man accused in the attacks, multiple sources tell CBC News.

The 30-year-old suspect in the attacks was apprehended following a high-speed chase just before midnight through streets filled with bar patrons and Edmonton Eskimo football fans. Police have said they believe the man acted alone.

The chase came to an end after the white U-Haul van he was driving struck four pedestrians and flipped on its side.

The injured police officer was taken to hospital and treated for non life-threatening injuries. Details of the pedestrians’ injuries have not been disclosed by emergency officials….

“We will not be intimidated by a brutal act of hate,” said Goodale. “Together, we condemn terrorist violence, today and every day, and we will never allow it to contort the way that we want to live our lives.”

The series of violent events was likely the work of a “lone wolf,” says the city’s mayor, Don Iveson who called for vigilance and community solidarity after the chaotic night.

“I wish to urge calm,” Iveson told a news conference Sunday. “To the best of our knowledge this was a lone wolf attack….

“Terrorism is about creating panic and sowing divide and disrupting people’s lives, so we can succumb to that or we can rise above it.”Iveson described Saturday’s events as “appalling” and commended first responders for their bravery in the “face of chaos.”

He urged Edmontonians to remain calm and united as the investigation continues. But Iveson stressed he’s confident that police are “fully in command” of the situation.

“It is vital now that we not succumb to hatred, that we not be intimidated by violence, and that we respond with love and strength,” Iveson said. “We will not be divided.”

In a written statement, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley described Saturday’s events as “horrific.”

“It’s left us shocked at the indiscriminate cruelty and angry that someone might target their hatred at places where we gather with our families and friends,” Notley said in the emailed statement.

“Hatred has no place in Alberta. It’s not who we are. We are in this together and together we are stronger than any form of hate.”…

“I’m frustrated that something like this could happen here in Edmonton, right here in my backyard,” said Abdikadir, chairperson of the steering committee of the Safety Summit, a grassroots organization that addresses crime and racism.

“I want to compliment the heroic actions of EPS [Edmonton Police Service]. If they were not there, the law enforcement, it would have been a completely different tragic outcome.

“To the Edmonton community at large, I would like to tell them that we stand together and unite against hate. And let’s solve this problem collectively, rather than pointing fingers at each other.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement Sunday, saying he was deeply concerned by Saturday’s events.

“The Government of Canada and Canadians stand with the people of Edmonton after the terrorist attack on Saturday,” he said. “I am deeply concerned and outraged by this tragedy.”

“We cannot — and will not — let violent extremism take root in our communities. We know that Canada’s strength comes from our diversity, and we will not be cowed by those who seek to divide us or promote fear,” Trudeau said….

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  1. J. Bissonnette says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 5:43 pm

    Some of us don’t buy this nonsense. I hope that this incident (like some people call it) will wake some people up. You try to talk to people and they tell you: “you’re over-reacting, I don’t believe in this stuff“. I even said to somebody that I read the Quran and the person said: “how do you know this is the right version“? Many people have quoted verses of the Quran and when I verify in the one I have, it’s the same thing that is said.

    • blitz2b says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 9:36 am

      J.Bissonnette says “…Some of us don’t buy this nonsense….”

      The key word is “some” …. Those are the precious some…The majority have the attitude of ignorance, and this ignorance brings them bliss.
      Unfortunately this Islam pandering, leftist liberal mentality is growing rather than diminishing.
      As usual Muslims in those communities will play the victim card, leftist politicians will warn us about impending Islamophobia and reiterate the “strength in unity through diversity” crap and the life will go on… Rinse and repeat…. Move on folks… Nothing to see here, while more Mohammedan refugees seep in, more mosques are built and more Islamic Sharia is slowly injected into the veins of our constitution corroding it from within.

      Thanks to Jihadi Justin.

  2. Andy says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 5:44 pm

    In Trudeau’s Canada to say something against Islam would make you a DREADED ISLAMAPHOBE!!!

    • Andy says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 5:49 pm

      In Trudeau’s Canada we had better jail all those Islamaphobes who are trying to tell the truth of the “religion of peace” !!!

  3. Dov Berrol says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 6:33 pm

    This Canadian Kuffar will not be fooled by the adherents of the so called Religion of Peace. I can rest easy at night knowing I did not vote for the Liberal Party in the last election…and Trudeau’s tattooed gang of pot-smoking baby-boomers will never get my vote. If this continues, it’s bye-bye Canada for me and Shalom, Israel or hello to the good ol US of A. I will claim refugee status from the Islamic State of Canada.

  4. Robert_k says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 8:30 pm

    An example of an oxymoronic statement: “We cannot — and will not — let violent extremism take root in our communities. We know that Canada’s strength comes from our diversity, and we will not be cowed by those who seek to divide us or promote fear,” Trudeau said….

  5. Norman says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 9:12 pm

    No one is pointing fingers at each other, they are pointing fingers as where the evidence leads and the evidence leads to extremists who profess to be Muslims. Instead of diversity strengthening us it actually does the opposite since the vast majority of terrorism is being done by these religious extremists. It only goes to show that the more Muslims in the country the greater chance is there will be more terrorist incidents. Europe is a perfect example. London`s mayor says the West should get used to it. I disagree, stamp it out with all the force we can muster in a democratic manner.

  6. MFritz says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 11:08 pm

    Sure the police KNOW these terrorists. But they are not allowed to DO anything against them.

    If this was a football hooligan over here in Europe, hell, the police would visit him AT HOME and tell him not to commit violence.

  7. 57thStateGuy says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 12:08 am

    Can anyone find out what Edmonton mosque he attended?

  8. TJ Greyson says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 1:29 am

    Name his mosque. This didn’t happen overnight. Many people knew about this guy’s views since at least 2015. An example needs to be made to future lone wolves that not only will you destroy youself but their friends, family and mosque will be tied to your actions too.

  9. dragaozao says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 3:22 am

    That means he had all the necessary qualifications to perform this attack. Congratulations Mr Trudeau. You have the society you worked for.

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 5:22 am

    In these sorts of stories, more and more, one comes to see that “hate” is code for “criticism of Islam” or “publicly indicating that jihad – involving, very often, acts of violent and murderous aggression against Infidels for no other ‘reason’ than that the Infidels *are* Infidels – is taught by the canonical texts of Islam”.

    It is “hateful” to point to this reality, to publicly speak about it. It is “hatred” if one tries to warn people about the Religion of Blood and War, Slavery and Pillage and Rape.

    *That* is the ‘hate’ that everyone must not feel. Anger is forbidden. One is not allowed to get angry with the Muslims. One is *not allowed* to recognise and name these murderous actions – which are happening more and more often, in more and more parts of the dar al Harb – as acts of *war* that are carried out by the de facto standing army of the Mohammedan colony that nurtures them, that pickles them in Islam, that – behind closed doors – passes round the candy when their non-uniformed killers go out to kill and terrorise the dirty kuffar.

    Further note: the modus operandi of this attack – run someone over with a car, then jump out and, in an allahu-akbaring ecstasy of bloodlust stab and stab and stab and stab – has been seen in operation in *Israel* for quite some time. Arab Muslims *there* have done *exactly* this to Jews in Israel, more than once, within the past few years. Arab Muslim car-ramming and then stabbing Jewish pedestrians in Israel; Somali Muslim car-ramming and then stabbing a Canadian cop and then running over *more* people full-tilt with a truck… NO difference. Canada or Israel, it’s *all* ‘dar al harb’, the zone of war. It doesn’t matter whether the victim is a Jew or a Polish-Canadian (probably Catholic) cop… to be a target of jihad it suffices to be an Infidel. Arab or Somali, the ethnicity of the attacker is irrelevant… what matters is that the attacker belongs to the Religion of Blood and War.

  11. dumbledoresarmy says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 5:36 am

    He shouldn’t have been let into Canada in the first place.

    But, given that he *was* let in: the moment he appeared on the police radar, he should have been *interned*.

    Better safe than sorry. Precautionary principle.

    Had he been denied entry to Canada; or, had he been interned as soon as questions arose; then all the terror and disruption of people’s lives that he has caused, would have been avoided. It is by sheer good luck, or by the grace of the *real* God (who is NOT ‘allah’), that Canada is not having to mourn the deaths of a brave cop and a number of harmless law-abiding non-Muslim Canadian citizens.

    Dear Canadian Jihadwatchers: write to your elected representatives *today* or *tomorrow* and make exactly those points, loud and clear. Make it clear to them that, no matter how much ‘soft soap’ is talked by this or that greasily-smiling imam after the latest murderous or would-be murderous Muslim Act of War within the very gates of Canada, Jihad is Jihad, and is intrinsic to Islam. All the imams like Abdikadir are doing, is playing ‘goodcop’ to the ‘badcops’ like Abdulahi Hasan Sharif. The jihadis do the terrorising and thuggery; then along comes the slithery Abdikadir and his ilk, pouring on the charm, pretending to be oh-so-shocked, pretending to be oh-so-terribly-scared of what the mean ol’ infidels might do to some doe-eyed hijabette, and basically engaging in ‘image management’.

    PS If the RCMP knew what they were doing, they would investigate Abdikadir and *all* his Muslim associates very very closely indeed. From the article – “Abdikadir, chairperson of the steering committee of the Safety Summit, a grassroots organization that addresses crime and racism.”

    ‘Grassroots’, eh? WHO finances it? Who are the members and supporters? How many of them are there? The RCMP would be well advised to take a very, very close look at it.

    And… in the wake of this would-be mass-murderous attack (the Somali Muslim thug seems to have been trying to get hold of the cop’s *gun* – but failed; a pity the cop wasn’t able to shoot him dead during the struggle; it would have saved Canada a lot of trouble and expense), *every known mosque* in and around Edmonton should be getting surprise-raided and searched, from top to bottom. With sniffer dogs. And army sappers. The louder the protestations of ‘oh, we is shocked! shocked!’, the more fulsome the soothing flowery nothings spouted by their official representatives, the more thoroughly that mosque and all associated premises and businesses should be searched.

  12. mach37 says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 4:33 pm

    Islam is a blight on Humanity. It may not be necessary to direct the fight against individuals who are Muslim, but the evidence points to *Islamic belief* as being the blight that needs to be wiped out.
    The source of Islamic belief is the Qur’an, and its Hadiths. The source of Islam must be eliminated, i.e., the Qur’an and the Hadiths.
    Logic 101.

  13. adm says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    1) Put Trudeau on the watch list 2) Deport everyone on the watch list

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